altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
We’re a #4 seed (second highest seed since 2005) and some posters be like . . .
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2004-05 #1 Lost in NC game
2005-06 #4 Lost to #5 Washington
2006-07 #12 Lost to #5 Virginia Tech
2007-08 Nothing/zip/nada/niente
2008-09 #5 Lost to #12 Western Kentucky (Last game I saw them play - flew down from AK to Portland, OR)
2009-10 NIT Lost to Dayton
2010-11 #12, Lost to #1 Kansas
2011-12 Nothing/zip/nada/niente
2012-13 #7, Lost to #2 Miami
2013-14 NIT, Lost to Clamson
2014-15 NIT, Lost to Alabama
2015-16 Nothing/zip/nada/niente
2016-17 NIT Lost to Central Florida
2017-18 Nothing/zip/nada/niente
2018-19 Nothing/zip/nada/niente
2019-20 No Tournaments
2020-21 #1, Lost to Loyola. Chicago
2021-22 #4 To be written . . .
I’m happy that we are not playing in the NIT or the slightly worse “Nothing/zip/nada/niente Tournament”. We’re playing Chattanooga for f’s sake, and more importantly, they are playing us! Strap on, it’s gonna be a wild ride, but regardless, the sun will come up the next day, and we’ll still be O&B to the core.
The mere prospect of disappointment is a dog whistle to a particular demographic. Better never to have loved and lost than, er, never to have, er, watched a first-round game of the Illini against whom the NCAA had conspired...?